Which states had the most lightning yesterday?

On Friday, November 6, 2026, Texas led returned state rows with 3,999 detected optical flashes.

Each row is that state’s local midnight-to-midnight calendar day. NOAA GOES East/West GLM reports optical total-lightning flash counts, not confirmed ground impacts. State bounding boxes are rectangular and can overlap, so rows cannot form a unique national total; a missing row is not proof of zero.

Returned state rows

RankStateDetected optical flashesRelative activity
1Texas yesterday3,999
2North Carolina3,650
3Virginia3,529
4Arizona yesterday3,425
5South Carolina1,558
6New York954
7Massachusetts932
8New Jersey840
9New Mexico yesterday731
10Maryland690
11Connecticut403
12Rhode Island354
13Georgia yesterday276
14West Virginia230
15Maine212
16Pennsylvania136
17Delaware122
18New Hampshire22
19Alaska21
20Indiana3
21Hawaii2
22Florida yesterday2
23Wyoming2
24Washington yesterday2
25Idaho yesterday2
26Oregon yesterday2
27Ohio1
28Michigan1
29Tennessee1
30Missouri1
31Mississippi1
32Colorado yesterday1
33Nevada1
34Kansas1
35Louisiana1
36Oklahoma1
37South Dakota1
38North Dakota1
39California1

Closed-day pages by state

These states keep their own yesterday page, whether or not they returned a row above.

What about right now?

These are closed local-day rows, not a live national tracker. Use the last-24-hour lightning map for recent activity, a state or city map for local context, and closest recent flash for distance context.

Counts are based on NOAA GOES East/West GLM observations. Read the methodology for source boundaries, cadence, and map limits.

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